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Optimized molecular resolution of cross-contamination alerts in clinical mycobacteriology laboratories

Ana Martín, Marta Herranz, Miguel M Lirola, Rosa F Fernández, INDAL-TB group, Emilio Bouza and Darío G de Viedma*

BMC Microbiology 2008, 8:30 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-8-30

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Rapid detection of laboratory cross-contamination with Mycobacterium tuberculosis using multispacer sequence typing

Zoheira Djelouadji, Jean Orehek, Michel Drancourt BMC Microbiology 2009, 9:47 (3 March 2009)

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Multispacer sequence typing can successfully detect cases of laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobaterium tuberculosis, and could provide a rapid alternative method of detecting false-positive diagnoses of tuberculosis.

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